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Records about Home-range from the Gajah Glossary at https://www.asesg.org/PDFfiles/Gajah/23-01-Glossary.pdf Home-range: [see also: Migration, population-density] (Owen-Smith 1982,:388,392; poole & Moss 19g9:112; Estes 1991:261; Shoshani 1992:54) Area utilized by an elephant or Group of elephants; depending on the productivity of the region, it may be as small as 14 km2 (e.g. at L. Manyzra,Tanzanta) or as large as 3500 km2 (in arid country, such as the desert of NW Namibia).

M. Philip Kahl and Charles Santiapillai, Gajah Elephant Glossary, Gajah nr 23 (2004), Journal for Asian Elephant Specialist Group


Home-range is mentioned on 2 other pagesHome-range,  Migration,  


Reference list Koehl, Dan, (2025). Home-range. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 20 September 2021 at https://www.elephant.se/index.php?id=103. (archived at the Wayback machine)



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